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>>10144075
Is it bad that this sent me into a giggling fit for like three minutes?

>>10144075
To be fair, the first few books were harmless enough (ignoring for now his distinct bondage fetish). Everything just started going to shit after like the 4th book.

I just kind of wish that more authors thoughtlessly threw together books that were never really planned to be twelve-to-eighty part sagas, but eventually become that due to readers begging for more.

"Guys, I just want you to know that I didn't intend for this to turn out the way it did. When I first started writing, I was terrified of rejection. Now that I'm older and wiser, I realize I was right to be afraid."

>>10144158 Everything just started going to shit after like the 4th book.

I guess it was either that or just re-releasing exactly the same book eleven times.

>>10144254
There are a lot of very valid things to hate about the series. The books being all the same is not particularly one of them.

>>10144243
So kinda like this.

>>10143784
That one's so accurate it scares me. Seriously, why were they putting these books in the adolescent section?

-As this this one. It was a fun read, but man the Pip and Flinx stories that followed sucked. Not to say that Alan Dean Foster is a bad author, he's just not a particularly great author.

>>10144075
Did Terry Goodkind reach Gor levels of depravity?

>>10144297

Yeah, pretty much that, except with more "GUYS, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU WANT MORE, BUT I WILL ENTHUSIASTICALLY SATE YOUR DESIRES WITH THE PHALLIC END OF MY PEN.

"WHICH END IS THAT? WHY, IT'S THE END WITH THE MAGIC IN IT, THE ONE THAT TECHNICALLY BELONGS TO YOU. THE MAGIC IS IN YOUR END.

"IT'S AN INNUENDO META-JOKE.

"LAUGH."

>>10144291
Oh come on. Victory celebrations regarding the last victory are somewhat spoilt by concern for some new danger. Concerns turn out to be true. Bondage fetish kicks in. Things look more and more grim, until we're about to run out of paper, when someone pulls a complete deus ex and saves the day, usually following the theme of ever-decreasingly memorable rules of wizardry. And somewhere along the way Richard gets to be all hardcore and Do What Must Be Done, usually involving killing civilians.

>>10144299
What about child porn happened there?

>>10144373
>>10144075
I gotta say, I enjoyed the TV series they made based on his stuff.

>>10144373
Yes, in the vague frame of plot, but you can say that about, like, all fiction ever. It's such a minor issue when there are so many other things you can pull out to complain about it. Like the aforementioned bondage fetish. Or his LOL OBJECTIVISM SUBTLETY IS FOR FAGS thing. Or naming the series after something which is only really relevant in like 2 books. Or the fun eugenics metaphors later in the series. Or a fuckton of other things that I'm forgetting right now.

>>10144482
As someone who gave up after four books I'd say the repetitiveness deserves to be mentioned. But I'll admit that it's entirely possible that it's grossly overshadowed by other issues later on in the series.

>>10144373
>>10144158

Bondage fetish?

Does that mean the books would probably be readable to someone who happened to share that fetish? Or is there enough general retardation (see: objectivism) to turn off readers even so inclined?

>>10144369

>read it
>find it unamusing and clumsy
>laugh in spite of self

>>10144625
It's 90% retarded with a side of bondage.

>Knights Who Say Fuck by George R.R. Martin

Just about sums it up, really

>>10144625
They're already readable, they just aren't good. If they weren't readable he'd be out of a job and we'd all be in a better position.

Spellsinger was a fun read. Rocker and all-around awesome guy Jon Thomas is transported into a world full of furries and 5 foot tall women, where he ends up saving said world on multiple occasions.

Before you say furfaggotry, I sympathized with the main character as he really, really, really hated the world he was in, hated the talking animals and manipulative "good guys," and had his latina girlfriend seduced by a smooth-talking rabbit.

The shit he put up with was incredible.

To be fair to Piers Anthony, he has given me one thing: As soon as anyone says anything about him that isn't a pedo or shit writer joke, I know I can screen everything else they say.

>>10144694
Does fuck else happen besides overusage of fuck?
I want to fucking know what the fuck happens in this fucking fucker.

>>10144733

Fuck is like a spice, man

Apply it in just the right amounts, and your food will taste fucking awesome.

Fucking overuse the fucking thing, and your fucking food will fucking taste horrible, fuck

>>10144733
People die.

Lots and lots of people die.

There's some rape too.

>>10144629

"THANK YOU."

Someone else reviews Kilobyte, and comes to the same conclusions I did when I was 12:

Killobyte starts as an intriguing, well-paced investigation of the virtual reality concept. The protagonist, Walter, explores the game from the earlier 'levels' - ushering the reader through the early ramifications of the new technology. Walter soon encounters multi-player gaming and Anthony, to his credit, deftly explores the repercussions of that aspect as well - a virtual reality world for one is wildly different than a world shared with others. Anthony even does a credible job showing the difference between power-gamers, social gamers, role-players. While Walter is out to explore the new world, others, like the woman, Baal, are merely using it as escapism. And still others are playing to 'win' - ignoring the meaning of the worlds they play in and just trying to rack up points.

Anthony being Anthony, however, the initial promise of the book is quickly ruined. Walter and Baal immediately kick off a romance (complete with VR sexual exploration), based almost entirely on the fact that they're both 'misfits' - Walter is wheelchair-bound, Baal is diabetic (something Anthony touches in repeatedly in his books). Several meandering expositional (yet in no way interesting) chapters later, their budding relationship is spoiled by a HACKER. Hackers, we learn, are the emo terrorists of the future. This one, Phreak, is a lonely kid who reaches out by logging in to Killobyte and heckling people.

And it gets worse.

>>10143784
I never read much Piers Anthony, but I have a friend who loves Xanth and is constantly trying to get me to read it.

What is this referencing? Where is there child porn in his books?

>>10144705
Clothahump the turtle wizard rules in a way that not even knowing there's 34 of him out there can diminish.

>>10144974
And yes that is a motherfucking leather-clad koala barbarian on the cover.

Christ that book.

>>10144929

I've only ever read 20 pages of a Piers Anthony book. Those 20 pages involved a young boy being kidnapped by a... let's say buoyant mermaid in order to eventually use him to father children.

Wouldn't touch his books again with a goddamn bargepole.

Posted for utter truth.

>>10144861

CONTINUE

>>10144987
Look at it this way: Piers Anthony makes a shitload of money by identifying present and future pedophiles to the populace at large. He's like Chris Hansen, only wholesale instead of retail.

You think reading Piers Anthony is awkward when you're a kid? Try reading Larry Niven's Protector and get to the part where the once-human explains how his balls fell off during the change!
Yikes.

>>10144987
>I was abused as a young boy.

Christ, what is with you people? There's no fucking SEX in Xanth. There's the whole Adult Conspiracy motif and nothing ever gets too close to racy.

Jesus christ.

>>10145083
Goddammit, that would require me to consider him a force for not total shit.

>>10145284
Frankly, it's worse. It's like a guy writing porn and using words like "winkie" and "hoo-hoo". To anyone with a normal human grasp of subtext, it's skincrawlingly creepy.

>>10145365
>It's like a guy writing porn and using words like "winkie" and "hoo-hoo".

Protip: It's nothing like that. It's like a scene that fades to black.

>>10144974
Do you remember the part where that eight-foot tall tigerlady thought he was "cute?"
Roseroar, wasn't it?

It's a pity that I learned about furries after this ("People make fan art of Redwall? I remember enjoying that when I was a kid, these should be fairly- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH WHY WOULD YOU DRAW THAT YOU SICK BASTARD"

>>10145282
>You think reading Piers Anthony is awkward when you're a kid?

Nope. Read the first 11 books in the Xanth trilogy when I was in second and third grade. Only "awkward" part was that some of them had the traditional I Am A Fantasy Book Cover going on, and I didn't want to be seen carrying a book with a half-nekkid chick on it.

Piers Anthony is a pedophile? Wow, I just remember stupid puns and a girl who changed over the month. Only read a few of them when I was a kid though.

>>10145513
>11 books
>trilogy

>>10145513

This. My sister used to love them, and because of that I've read some of them (usually because I was bored as fuck.) Xanth isn't that bad.

And you know why I say that? Because I've read the other shit Anthony has written, and HOLY FUCKING BALLS IS IT /d/ TACULAR. Like the short story where a character is scouting an alternate reality where women are lobotomized at birth and turned into milking cows.

Yes, the whole /d/ fetish women-being-milked thing; Piers Anthony wrote an entire fucking story about that.

rolled 5 = 5

>>10145045
shop this so she's holding dogshit instead of an apple

>>10145500

Redwall series was cool until I read my third book of the series and realized that Brian Jaques follows a cookie-cutter formula for his plot, every time.

Thank you, Brain, you always introduce a third hostile party that is hostile to both the first bad guy and the heroes. How fucking brilliant.

>>10145513
Well, to be fair... the first novel-length book I read was this at the tender age of 12.

Yes, that Carl Sagan.

This is the best I can offer you. I'm sorry.

>>10145663
Carl Sagan.
At twelve.
Who the fuck raised you?

>>10145692
I love how the example rifts book has coffee stains and battered corners.

Fucking softbound. Spring for a real book binder, Kevin!

>>10145606

>first 11 books
>trilogy

FTFY

so wait, there are like 33 books in this "trilogy"?

>>10145642
I kept hoping the humans they hinted at would show up in person so there would be a proper scale to things AND a different view of the situation where predators aren't all automatically evil.

>>10145727
Oh PKD, why is everything you write so great? Even the stuff that annoys the piss out of me (Pic Related) is still great.

I have no idea about the books people talk about in this thread (except for the sherlock one. I have it).

I think I'm lucky.

>>10145692

Tits & Robots & Monsters & Math!

I lol'd

>>10145766

Scale? Predators not evil? You hitting the pipe boy? This is Brian Motherfucking Jaques, you might as well ask him not to describe food in such detail.

>>10145796
>>10145801

PKD is incredibly awesome. Insane, but awesome. He apparently thought that Stanislaw Lem was actually a committee set up by the Soviet Union for some nefarious purpose.

Lem makes a joke about it in one of the Pirx stories.

You know what the worst fantasy book I ever read was? Well I can't remember the name, but I know it was about some guy living in the present, whose wife and kids left him after he got leprosy. He then lives as a shut it, constantly bitching about his leprosy. Then he goes to the store one day and gets hit by a car, but he wakes up in a magic high fantasy world where the people believe he is prophesied to be either a great evil or a force of good. Be spends his journey bitching about his leprosy, being all-around nasty to the people around him and even raping the only character to be kind to him. I stopped shortly after that.

>>10145801
Only in the sense that a guy who's never heard pop music is lucky. Everyone needs a little garbage culture.

>>10145724
A molecular biologist and a former latin teacher.

>>10145859
No fucking way. That's a new one on me, although it fits in perfectly with everything else I know about PKD. The man was madder than a rhubarb hat.

>>10145902
Pic Related. It does not get better. At all. Nick Lowe invented a game you can play with those books called Clench Racing, where you flip open the book at random and see how long it takes you to find the word "clench.

If i remember correctly, the first novels I read as a kid was Raymond E Feist's Riftwar series.

It also made the old dos game Betrayal at Krondor that i was playing at the time make a lot more fucking sense, having been based on the series.

>>10145918
and the product of their endeavor is now on 4chan

>>10145830
I remember complaining about the number of food-related events in Redwall to my mom and recieving this C.S. Lewis quote in response: "if I didn't write children's novels, there would be sex instead of feasts."

>>10146019
Excellent series, excellent game.

Respect, good sir.

>>10145732
>so wait, there are like 33 books in this "trilogy"?

By now? Probably. I stopped after 20 or so, he kept right on typing.

It's a fandom joke that Xanth was meant to be a trilogy, and Anthony called it that even as it got to be five books. Nowadays... I just like referring to Book Twenty-Four in the Xanth trilogy.

At any rate, to re-iterate what others have said: Maybe a lot of Anthony's writing is pedo and /d/. Xanth really isn't. It's not GOOD WRITING, mind you, it's schlock braincandy that I enjoyed mainly because they were the first full-length novels I ever read and they had nostalgia on their side after that... but it's not child porn, ffs.

>>10146038
I NEVER SAID I WAS GOOD AT ANYTHING ELSE.

Oh, god, this is brilliant.

>>10145642

... I managed to get thirteen books in and I still had to read two books from a completely unrelated series, his Flying Dutchman books, before finally figuring that out.

I must have been distracted by all those feasts or something.

>>10146107
Dude fucks five year old.
She becomes his waifu.
Wat do?

>Piers Anthony

>http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/10/21/mgk-versus-his-adolescent-reading-habits-part-two/

Mercedes Lackey was my obssession when I was 14. Yes I am male. It was only much later that I noticed the overabundance of characters who were either homosexual men or powerful women rulers.

I still think gryphons are pretty awesome though.

Oh hey there's more.

http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/06/23/bad-habits/

>>10146734
Holy shit, that guy is jet-skiing on two tigers.

>>10146404
That's something I can relate to. It took me a few book to start wondering about the distinct lack of an lesbians though. What, every dude and his brother has a 50% chance of being either gay or bi but women don't roll for other women?

Xanth got stale after the third book. There's only so many puns I can deal with before I give up disgust.

>>10146159
Oh god not this book. This was a horrible horrible book. It was just an excuse for some of the worst sex scenes I've ever read. And I've read the 'excuse for masturbation' stuff that we write here.

>>10147365
Cheer up, big guy!

Oh god this

100 times this

>>10146734
That may be the greatest book cover ever.

I never got into xanth, actually. I just read the Incarnations of Immortality, and I stopped after the one with SATAN, because the other ones just seemed dumb

>>10147509
Let me guess, you actually read the sequels?
Maybe even the prequels?

Shit man, you'll never get those hours of your life back.

>>10147722
>Maybe even the prequels?

The sequels I didn't mind too terribly.

The KJA prequels can get fucked though. Holy shit.

Does anyone have the version of "fucking epic rabbits" version of the Watership Down cover?

>>10147722

Up to Heretics of Dune, all sequels are fucking awesome. The Heretics and Chapterhouse storyline, however, leave too many questions unanswered.

>>10147365
holy fuck nostalgia i want to go through them again

>>10147722

I don't regret reading up too God Emperor of Dune.

I'd have to be threatened with prolonged genital electrocution to read any of the prequels tho.

>>10147722
I read the first prequel book. It was just about as bad the ones they wrote for the foundation series.

>>10148131
Hunters and Sandworms of Dune ties up everything I can think of.

>>10146017

Shush, those books are awesome.

>>10146157

It's strictly formula, yes, but it was an entertaining formula.

Also, Lord Brocktree had no third party.

Piers Anthony has some serious issues as a writer but I'm not seeing where the pedophilia complaint is coming from when the whole joke is that underaged people in Xanth literally _cannot_ know what sex is.

Also, there was a bit in one of the books where a Mustang (the car) bred with a horse.

>>10147365

Was this a real book?

>>10155220
> Little girls' panties
> Older women squabbling over a ten-year-old boy
> "Hey kids, sex is special and wonderful and YOUUUUU can't have any"

Long before I'd read any of his actual kiddy-fiddling, the queasy "innocent" sexuality of the Xanth books was pinging the creep alarm something wicked. I know the kids these days wouldn't know subtext if it bit them, but that shit was practically text.